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Originally Posted by ange82much
If you're after weight loss though, it's all about controlling food food food. Forget about the exercise impact for weight loss (or weight gain) - exercise is for being healthy and strong, it's really not going to have much impact on the weighing-scale in either direction IMO.
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Well I have decided that I want to minimize cutting the food back. For 30 years I have cut the food back at it only leads to reducing my metabolism so that once I have lost weight I can easily gain it. So I refuse going forward to reduce calories that much. Even if it takes 4 years to lose 30 lbs. If my RMR is 1700 (I had it tested) and I am eating 1500 per day, I should be losing. But I suspect that it is going to take some time to show up on the scale because weight lifting is going to obscure it for a while. If 5 months down the line I haven't lost any weight then I might drop it slightly.
To me the pain isn't great. For instance my knees are killing me. Yesterday I was sitting -- sitting - in a chair and I tried to push the chair slightly sideways and I got such a shooting pain in the knee. Also I feel like I am not able to make gains because when I use the weights I am already exhausted before even starting so I get like 4 reps.